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&;■ Literary fVebv<s and Criticism Packets and Clipper Ships. Their Records and Times. •THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA. is43-l*«9. An ITuitoxne of Famous American •^Brit ish Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Build er?, CommapdKs nnd Crews By Arthur V Clark. With thirty-'wo illustrations. . *vo pp.'>ii. 4"4 <; P. Putnam's Sons. The author of this book himself served r .- an officer on one of the best known of th€ American clipper ships whose history he tells: he was acquainted with several of their captains, saw many of them built at the Boston yards, and himself commanded in later day« several^ vessels, loth sail and steam. What he ha's to tell i«. therefore, not merely a matter of rareful compilation ' from records, but first hand knowledge, the result being that his pages, apart from their histori cal knowledge, their detailed lists of ships an<s record trips, has a human note that makes them of interest to a larger, non-nautical public. He writes of com- : manders and crews, of conditions aboard ! during the long: voyages under fail, of the romance of a vanished sea life. Paying due measure of attention to Brit ish as well as to American ships and their records, he is led into the past to find the causes of the supremacy held « by our flyers during a quarter of a cen- ' tury, and thus, first of all, finds the best model? for sailing vessels in French built ships. The monopoly held by the j British East India Company obliterated «I 1 need of competitive speed; and in the early days of transatlantic freighting ; the British owners appear to have been \ long in awakening to the Importance of | reduced time in Liverpool- York ' •voyages. It was the American tea clip- ! pers, enormous time savers, and there fore money makers, preferred for that reason by British merchants, which, set British owners and commanders to do , thPir best. The- main part of Mr. Clark's work is, however, devoted to the achievements of the .clipper service from our Atlantic I>orts to Pan Francisco in the days of the gold fever. Those were the days of ocean racing such as the world has never *een before or since. There was the race between the clippers Flying Fish no Juhn Gi!pin from Sandy Hook to the Golden Gate, the one doing the trip in ninety-two, the other in ninety-three days: TVh*n we reflect ti at this inatoh was veiled over a course .of some 15,000 miles, and that the difference of time was only twenty-four hour?, one is Impressed with •he perfection to which the models of the vessel* had been brought . . . and with i!;« skill of their captain^ The average dif ference of sailing between these two ships was loss than six seconds per mile over the entire distance. Few races over thirty mil" course? have been sailed by yachts •mor* evenly matched. No racing yachts have ever b*en handled with greater care *nd skill than were these clipper ships over courses of thousands of miles. Technical details of construction, measurements, etc.. may be passed over her*, though part of the superiority of the American merchant fleet over the British lay in just this, that owing to lighter construction the Americans, with a smaller total tonnage, had a greater carrying, capacity in addition to their superior speed. In the early days of the California rush, with a freight rate of S«J(i a tor., the clippers more than paid Jor their cost with their first trip. In teresting, also, are Mr. Clark's data con cerning the enormous earnings of the li'.jjsters of HM "British East India Com pany in th<* fc*o«nl old days. Tin record for a quick trip between SCcv Voik and Fan Francisco was won Vv th* Flying Cloud—^ichty-nme days— j». performance which she repeated three v^r* Inter, in 1554. This r<-<ord has n«-vor been broken, and was equalled only oner, in I*oo. by another clipper, th" Andrew Jackson. The author. -.writes enthusiastically -of th* American .commanders of these ves p<l<=. and remembers th« mates whose <i;jty jt was to serve out "belaying pin Houp" and -"handspike hash" to the vil lanous crews of th« Liverpool packets, th« so-called = "Liverpool Irish.' who-. only virtue was that they were capital pallor?. Discussing the crews of the California packets, he says: Etrictly speaking there have never been mv American sailors as a class: that is, noAmerican merchant shit> of considerable Teenage was ever manned by native-born Americans. . - • Xeither have Americans *ver followed the eea all their lives before the maM Som* of the small Salem ships fend perhaps a few of the Nantucket whaJ exa of a century ago may possibly have car ried entirely American crews, but, if so. th* mm Ml not remain long in Urn fore castle. -"■/." One Salem ship, for instance, furnished '•:• .of its American crew forty- five, cap tains, twenty chief mates and six second mates, the original cabin boy rising through all the grades to command her pj last. Th best crews of the American merchant marine during the first half of the last century were Scandinavians. j.bfe seamen in the fullest sense of the word, which Includes discipline. Dur ing the gold fever the crews of the clip pers were, however, largely composed of *»-urn. intent only on getting passage to the land of promise. By th«» time the equator was reached trie American offi cers Invariably had persuaded them to tec. the beauty of obedience and work. They deserted the moment San Fran cisco was reached, and the return crew was often, if possible, of worse calibre. Th« author discusses Jack afloat and ashore with fullest understanding, and i *-eocn'z>-C his traditional right to grum ble, even though he. had to object to fresh food tnd insist on "salt Junk" for a pretext- *!!•■■ 'sea lawyer," not the on of the fo'csle, but he of the water front, comes in for his share of reminis oeno£ together with the harpies that preyed upon the sailorman. His condi tion has indeed been improved since Ohm. Launch ings, we are further informed, w«?r« not then the elaborate functions they have since become. Nor was the ship baptized with the elaborate ■•:■■ *i-jnial now in use. No girl figured in it. The foreman of the shipyard smashed a "brittle of good M> '.' ir.l rum on the bow of the .-.,.;:-.>■•.■ ■ . -.in to move and bellowed, "Flying Fish: Your name is Filing Fish!" or words to that effect. Mr. Clark's reminiscences of the meet ings in the Astor House of owners, cap tain?, merchants and others Interested in t... clippers and of the wagers made there must !" passed over, as must hi 3 description of the quiet beauty of New York Harbor in the '*'■&, and of the sail ing of the ships. He gives elaborate: lists of the California clippers built in this country from Hit to > : - . their ton nage, commanders, o'.-'iit-rs and ports: a iifct of th«ir record passages below 110 days from ISr/j to IS<SI. and ■ list of the British China -..,.'■.- from 1839 to "ISVS3. The .• | MM •■! American shipping he trsjrrji nt length, dating it from the <n<J of th*- Crimean war, when the cessa tion of a i'.-<J >.: ttooiJ ships i>roduccd v j surplus of tonnage. Iron and steam had their share In" the decline, so had the Suez Canal and legislation, but he is quite sure that Confederate privateers had nothing whatever to do with it. The last survivor of the clipper ships in active service is the British Titania: She is owned by Mm*-. Maresca, of Cae tellamare, and Ball* under the flag of Italy, usually between European and South American ports. A few years ago she ar rived in New York. . . . She appeared so little changed that it was difficult to realize that nearly forty 'years had passed away since I last stood upon her deck In China. . . . Her spars had been some what reduced and her rig chanced to a barque, but the beautiful India teak used in her construction, with the polished brasswork of her rails, skylights, bells and capstans seemed to have paid little heed to the flight and ravages of time. MOUNTAINS __AND_ FLOWERS The Delights of the Alpine Climbers. THE DOLOMITE?. By S. H. Hamer. With sixteen illustration? in color by Harry Rountre<=\ 12mo, pp. ML The John" Lane Con.pany. BtnOEBB KLCAVERS OF THE HIGH ALPS. By Somervillf Hastings. Illus trated, pp. So. B. P. Dutton A: Co. More and more every year the judi cious travellers who do not love auto mobiiing less but the glories of nature more are spending some enchanting days or weeks among the wonderful mountain ranges of the Tyrol and Northern Italy, known as the Dolomites. We know of no region which is more satisfying to the lover of scenery. Mr. Hamer says that Jt is the delight and despair of the artist —many a painter has testified to the truth of the fact that much of this "scenery is so unusual and unexpected that one feels disposed to regard it as wild exaggeration when faithfully repro duced on paper or canvas, while the rapid changes effected by the play of light and shade on the diversely colored rocks make it almost impossible for even the quickest worker to set more than an Impression of the scene set before him." Those magnificent peaks of magnesian Buteatane take on colors at sunrise and sunset which can find justice neither in paint nor words. The vision of such beauty is good for the soul. For many years ihe region was little traversed; it remained almost as primitive in its cus toms and its highwas*s as in 1759, when it was first described by the Marquis de Dolomieu, who gave his name to these ranges. Nowadays there are line roads throughout the district, and automobiles are much to the fore — not altogether to the liking of old-fashioned travellers who remember the leisurely journeys be hind good horses that meant an oppor tunity to gaze their fill at beauty wronged by a fleeting glance through automobile goggles. Mr. Hamer, whose enthusiasm is ad mirable, has spent much time afoot among these mountains, and his experi ences have been, on the whole, enviable. Food was not always procurable at the moment it v.as wanted; sometimes the luggage forwarded by post wagon was delayed, with embarrassing consequences to the pedestrian. But these minor dis comforts were not worth talking about in the face of such solid joy as moun tain climbing In the Dolomites offers to a man of taste. To one who has once trodden these paths Mr. Hamer's book will be a welcome companion, a re minder of delightful hours. The reader v'.io looks forward to the expedition will find here a wealth of valuable sugges tion and a contagious enjoyment. Alpine climbers who are also botanists or dower devotees will discover an indis pensable friend in Mr. Hastings'^ charm ing book. Those who have gathered the exquisite Alpine, blossoms on the moun tain slopes of Switzerland — out of Hie edge of the snowdrift, as has been the happy fortune of the writer— will be grateful for the text and pictures, which recall hours of purest pleasure. The illustrations. . reproduced from photo graphs in color, are almost without ex ception remarkably faithful to the lovely tints of the growing plant. The author notes that one of the chief diffi culties which the. photographer has to contend with on the Alpine heights is the wind, th*- waving plant not adapting itself to long exposure. Other amateurs will read with interest his excellent plan for screening his dainty sitter. THE FRENCH WOMAN New Studies of Her Traits in Old and Modern Times. Paris, December lf>. M. Henry Koujon, formerly director of fine arts, and now perpetual secretary of tho Academic dcs Beaux-Arts, has brought together in an amusing volume, entitled "Dames d'Autrefois," published by Fasnuello, upward of fifty .sketches of women who became eminent, or, at least, deserved celebrity. Gome of these v»r/men wore artful political wire, pullers, Use T^dy Hamilton, the friend cf the Queen «f Napiee and companion of Xcl rr-n; some were ardent sentimentalists, like Queen Marguerite de Valois. Mll*>. de I'Espinassr 5 and Mile, de Romans; others triumphed on the stage. !ik«^ Mile. P3IIS, the "danseuse"; others were pro fessional beauties, like Mile. Duthe, but those who occupy the largest spare in V.. Uoujon's book were women of doin ii ating personality and brilliant intel lect, such as the. Marquise de Hambouil let. Mine, de Lafayette. Mme. Roland, M'ne. 'Jeoffrin. Mme. do Stael, Ifm^. ReV/amif-r and Mme. Emlk- de Girardin. M. Roujon is a sort of literary Nattier. lie never fails to impart to his portraits some new features that render them sympathetic. M. Octave Uzanne, who is a somewhat acidulous observer, has collected in a compact book, "Parisierines de Cc Temps." published by the Mercure de France, a series of biographies of Pa risian women of evciy social level and of varied vocations. The chapters devoted to women of the dramatic and lyric stago offer no encouragement for girls who wish to become operatic divas or star tragediennes. M. Uzanne thus de scribes the life of a successful actress: To bo an actress is become the slave of caprice and the servant of the public, to belong to nobody, to sacrifice to every body, to tremble before the critic, to have M real homo life, to be bullied by theatre managers, to be polluted by the (scrutiny of promiscuous audiences, to interpret scores of Idiotic, Incongruous parts, to dress, un dreaa und dress over again, to paint one's : face, to make grimaces or smiles, to abdi cate all Individuality and to recommence each evening the eternal, Insipid, monoton ous parade before a house full of new and unknown faces- M. Francis Jammeg, in *La Drebl" Egarfe." published by Plon, recounts the Idyl of a young musician, Pierre, who falls in love with a beautiful and intel lectual Parisienne named Franc.oise§ The methods employed by the author are mticij like UvtC uk<-.J p., offe<tiv<:ly by M. i\<ui licrvic'J lv "Feist* pur Eux XEW-YORK DATLY TRIBUXE. SATUMfrAY. DECEMBER 24. 1910. : Memes." Th" descriptions are ad mirable. The Httle Bitting room 'of Pierre's good, matter-of-fact, but affec tionate, mother, Mme. Denis, reflects the character of a oman whose .tempera i ment Is sealed to all impressions of art or science." The noisy tic-tac clock of hideous shape, the glass covered candle [ sticks, the antimacassars and the com | monplace vases, "■which smell of i camphor." serve as psychological barom | eters in this clever little novel, composed largely of monologues, and which is hap pily innocent of any effort to establish a thesis or to solve a problem. From Fas <i nolle also comes "La Reine Amou reuse," a novel by M. Andre Geiger, deal ing in a highly imaginative but effective way with the romance of the ex-Queen of Saxony. CL I. B. BOOKS AND AUTHORS . Current Talk of Things Present and to Come. The verbatim reprint of the letters of John Dorme — letters among the most in teresting of those penned in the seven teenth century— is in the press of the Sturgis & "Walton Company. The edi tion is to be a limited one of six hun dred copies. The quaint title page in scribed "Letters to Severall Persons of Honour" and dated 1651, is to be repro duced in facsimile, together with a pho togravure copy of Lombart's portrait of Donne. Mr. Charles E. Merrill has edited the text and contributed many notes. . Mr. W. J. Locke is at work upon a new novel which will possibly be pub lished in the spring. It is stated that lv- has no intention of using therein the studies of American life made by him during his recent visit to this country. Lord Rosebery's book on Chatham has boen received here with so much favor that the Harpers have been obliged to reprint it. Mrs. Katherino C. Thurston, the au thor of that successful novel, "The Mas ciuerader" and of a later novel, "Max," Is coming to America in a few months. It is not stated that she is In search of local color for another book. An American novelist, Mrs. Mary Rob erts Rinehart. is in Vienna, where she is writing a new story and a new farce as well. Three more volumes have just been added to the Maemillan Company's uni form edition of Nietzsche's works. These are "The Gospel of Superman," "The "Wili to Power" and "The Joyful TVis dom." Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence. the latest rabid Baconian to write a book demolishing Shakespeare, claimed last month to have discovered a Baconian anagram In the word "Honorificabjlitu dinitatibits"—which word is to be found, as all men know, in "Love's Labor's Lost." The author's anagram, declared Sir Edwin, as drawn from this fearful wild fowl of a word, Is Hi ludi F Baconis nati tuiti orbi (These plays F. Bacon's children are safe orphaned). Delighted with this amazing . discov- I cry, the Baconian enthusiast added: "I hereby offer one hundred guineas to any j one who can construct, either in Latin or lin English, another sensible' anagram from the long word which shall give the numbers lot* and 151*'— the long word. i be it noted, being the 351 st word upon page I'M. Several readers of "The Pall Mall Gazette," in which Sir Edwin's let ter was printed, took up the challenge. The result as set forth by "The Gazette" is amusing. Only two of them, Mr. R. J. Beevor and Mr. J. P. Gilson, observed the second of Sir Edwin's conditions — that the anagram should have the nu merical characteristic of giving the numbers 1.% and 1 51. Mr. Beevor's Latin anagram was "AW inivit F. Bacon histrio ludit"— i. f., "Be off, F. Bacon the actor has entered and is play ing"; and he also offered one in English: "It is in nut. I diabolic author fib." Mr. Gilson's Latin anagram was: "I Jonson, hi libri tui aut ficti a d ," i. c.. "Go to, Ben Jonson, these books are yours or invented by the Devil." "The Gazette" requested Dr. Gow, the headmaster of Westminster school, to act as umpire in this matter, and his judgment was given in these terms: The word "sensible" varies considerably in meaning according to its application. An anagram, I take it. is "sensible" when it rearranges given Tetters into a word which has a meaning, or into words which, taken together, have a meaning. It is not sufficient that the anagram should produce several words, each of which means some thing, if the words when put together have no continuous meaning. On this principle I regard Sir EL Durn ing-Lawrence's anagram as not sensible. Ills I^atin words, though each has a mean ing," do not make the meaning which he attributes to them or any other meaning. The only possible translation of "Hi ludi F. Baconis nati tuiti orbi" is "These games sons of F. Bacon having protected (aret orphans." On the same principle I rule out Mr. Beevor's second anagram: "It is in nut. I diabolic author lib." These words do not make a continuous sense. Here are two sentences between which" a connection j is hardly imaginable. Mr. Gilson'F "I. Jonson hi libri tui aut fJeti a d " is "sensible"—!, c.. it may le gitimately bear the meaning "Go to. Jon son: these books are either yours or in vented by the devil." but the final dash (- — ) Is probably essential to this mean ing, and there is no dash in the given let ters. Mr. Beevor's "Abi Inivit F. Bacon EUstrto ludit" is also "sensible" — I. c., it may legitimately bear the meaning "Be off, i F. Bacon, the actor, has entered and is '• playing." and various other arrangements ' of the same Latin words would also make j s*>nf=e. Both Mr. Gilson and Mr. Beevor have given simple rules for deriving the numbers 136 and 151 from their Latin word?, and here I should observe that. In assigning numbers to the letters of the alphabet, they omit J, as Sir K. Durning- I Lawrence also does. On the whole. I think Sir E. Burning- ! Lawrence ought to pay Mr. Beevor, but | that he has some ground for not paying j Mr. Gilson. The money was forwarded to Mr. Beevor, Sir Edwin approving, though ho continued to stand by the correct Latin ity of his own anagram. In a later letter Sir Edwin says that good scholars, both in England and Ger many, have accepted his anagram, "Hi ludi F. Baconls nati tuiti orbi," as ex cellent Latin. He continues: 1 ir. now lias evidently not read the care fully prepared statements in my book or ho would have seen that we are told by Sue tonius that '•ludi" means stage plays In contradistinction to circus games, that "tuor" is used as a passive by Varro and the 1.-^al writers, that there are two verbs "tueor," one with the past participle "tutus" and the other with the. past parti ciple "tuitus," nnd that "tuitl" it> quite oor rectly translated as "are pre.«erved fl or "are safe." • : And with respect to air. Beevor's words, almost, the last letter which the great scholar who has just passed away, Pro —i i: i:. Mayor, wrote was to the effect that "Inlvit" was not classical Latin. I could have told Dr. Gow thin, but I thought that 1 ought not to interfere. Still, i gladly pay the £105. because now attention will be turned to the enormous value of Bacon'" eit-nature. to which be first attached the name of Shakespeare, which la to lie found In the long word, "Honoriticabilitudinltatibus." At Luuvaine. the other day, was sold a copy of the book printed at St. Die in 1507 containing the account by . ih geographer W&ldseemuller or. the jour neys of Amerigo .Vespucci to the New World, which was to bear his name. James Lewis Milligan Is a Liverpool tvorkingman who in the intervals of his hard manual labor . writes verses. .. He has lately published a book in which ap pears this simple and appealing little poem:, Z&'-^i THE CARPENTER.. ;.v When Jesus paus'd amid His labor, leaning Upon His plane to take a moments breath; ,•, • Did He, like me. thus ponder o'er the meaning Of birth, and life and death? Or, when His work was done and in the gloaming . ■ He put his tools back In the wooden chest, I wonder if, like mine, when He was homing, Deep sadrfess filled His breast? If in the red defeat of day retreating He saw a symbol of His Calvary- Or if. like me, He felt how life was fleeting, And wept that it must be? If when He laid His body, limp and aching With duteous toil, upon His bumble bed. He closed His eyes, nor thought upon the waking. And lost, like me, the dread? A young man of letters is the hero of the new novel which Lucas Malet, daughter of Charles Kingsley, will pub lish in the spring. It is to be i called "Adrian Savage." Students of Celtic literature will here after find at the University of London a mine of riches in tha shape of the splendid library of the eminent Celtic scholar, the late Dr. Whiteley Stokes. The main strength of this library lies, it is said, in the collection of martyrolo gies, lives of saints and other works of early Irish religious literature. There are many works of philology and folk lore which were collected by Dr. Stokes mainly because they illustrated his Cel tic researches. The university authori ties hope that the library will become a centre for the teaching of Celtic philol ogy. BOOKS OF THE WEEK. ARCHITECTURE. OLD ENGLISH HOUSES. The Record ot a. Random Itinerary. By Alan Pea. W lth ft frontispiece in photogravure, and o\ or one hundred illustrations from photographs by the author. Svo, pp. 272. (Imported by Charles Scrlbner's Sons.) Impressions of ancient buildings, manor houses, prl.Tk-s, and churches in Bucking hamshire, Kent. Sussex, Surrey and Hamp shire. 'Essex, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. BIOGRAPHY. A JAPANESE ARTIST IX LONDON. Written and illustrated by Yoshio Markir.o. Syo. pp. xvii. 222. (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs ft CO.) 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'•■>• 'n ormatlon on everything that !s impvirtaiit 111 ski-running and mountaineering for his rst two BeaMuii-,. Suggestions for practice Ist* of outfit*, touring memoranda and tho International ».igns of .Untie** am given In lie appendix. ' AMERICAN OAMK-BIRD SHOOTING By George Bird Grlnnell, With colored "plate's of i-ufted grouse and bobwhlta forty-vlght full-j,a E « portraits "I" game bird* and si exit ing scenes, and many cuts in i.\t Hvo }•!'• xvlil. BBS. (Forest arid Stream' Pub liKhlng i •uiriimny.) sh^rthai 0 ,r b^ Sss SSr»« ln .!. w tt h rl l " u "> '■' '- "- ■■ TRAVEL. LAQHTS and BHADOWB Of I ikk om rm- PACIFIC C^mpan?. 1 ) «*| d. ™* *»^ * Wagnalls c.,,.-,;,,,,' . ° FU " k * da I v n . l|^n S^^ " ! i" ;!, lvtTlmlscences r primitive JS! °" "" ' *•"•'"« • ■-: before San Fran u,T".i. v ;'". ''■ ','," town. t n this - i " iv of ARMY AND NAVY NOTES West Point to Have New Com mandant of Cadets. [From Til* Tribune Bureau. " ' Washington, December 21- TO BE CHOSEN FROM INFANTRY ARM.— The- Military Academy at West Point Is to have a new commandant of ca dets: The present incumbent, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick TV. Slbley. 4th Cavalry, is to M relieved In a few weeks at his own request 1 and will be detailed to duty in the Inspector General's department in place of Lieutenant Colonel W. E. Wilder, of the cavalry, arm, who is destined to become colonel of the €th Cavalry when the com manding: officer of that regiment. Colonel Alexander Rodgers, Is retired, on January 17. Th* position of commandant of cadets is one of the most prominent of army bil lets. It carries^with it the increased rank and pay, and it will be filled on Colonel Sibley's detachment by Captain F. W. Sla den, 14th Infantry, now on duty in the War Department as secretary of the General Staff. Captain Sladen is a graduate of the Military Academy, -class of '30. He 13 a native- of Massachusetts, forty-three years old and entered the army from Nebraska. He will bo the. first commandant of cadets In many years to be selected from the in fantry arm. IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS. — The. naval ordnance officers are planning an im portant (series of unusual tests with ord nance, projectiles and armor. By an ar rangement with the Navy Department the ! Bureau of Ordnance has obtained the old monitor Tallahassee, formerly the Florida, and the ram Katahdin, which became obso lete as soon as built, during the Whitney administration. The combination of these two old vessels will serve as a floating proving ground, the nautical adjunct of the proving ground at Indian Head, Md. At that place it has been found Impossible to obtain the long ranges which it is now proposed to use in ascertaining the effect of projectiles on armor. Such tests have been conducted on a theoretical basis, and the criticism has been made that no one knows exactly what the effect of attack would be under conditions of war. The difficulty now in the way of the ord nance officers is to obtain a range in the Potomac River which will furnish an extra two or three miles to allow for the ricochet of shots. Care must be taken not to dam age, passing craft or property on shore. It was at one time thought that such a long rang© could be obtained on shore, but It is realized that this would necessitate much expense in the acquisition of the necessary land, and as the experiments will occur only two or three times a year the Navy Department concluded that it was not worth while going to that expense. With these two vessels any ranee can be ob tained.' The forthcoming experiments will have to do with the penetration of shells against various thicknesses of armor, and different calibres of gun will be used up to 12-inch ordnance, arrangements being made to mount these guns en the Tallahassee while the Katahdin will be used as a target. It has been necessary specially to manufact ure the supports for the plates which are to be attacked, and this may delay the test for several months In the mean time the chief of ordnance of the navy has prepared statistics which ill answer any criticism made in N the House during the debate on the naval ap propriation bill. It Is understood that Rep resentative Hob3on possesses some infor mation of which he Intends to make use in this connection. It has been alleged in some quarters that the Bureau of Ord nance has not made use of high explosives to the extent justified by the effectiveness of that class of ammunition. Th» critics have gone so far as to assert that the aval ordnance bureau has adhered to ord nance and projectiles incapable of inflicting the damage wrought by available Ugh ex plosives. The experts have not been in clined to use high explosives because of the risk involved in their storage on a MM of war. ENGINEERS FOR PHILIPPINE DUTT. —Headquarters and Company I. of the Third Battalion of Engineers, are slated for duty in the Philippines. The company now is stationed at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., and an order issued from the War Department to-day directs MM men to hold themselves in readiness to sail from San Francisco on October 5 next for Manila, where they will relieve the headquarters and Company G. of the Second Battalion •re they will relieve the headquarters Company G. of the Second Battalion of Engineers, which will 'come to Fort Leavenworth. NEW NAVAL, CHAPLAIN.— Leroy Nel son Taylor, of Schenectady, N. T., a Meth odist clergyman, has been appointed a chaplain in the navy ORDERS ISSUED.— following orders have been Issued: ; • ABUT. Major DAVID J. BAKER, Jr.. 11th Infantry, detailed in adjutant general's department to take effect May SI, vice Major WILLIAM H. SAGE, adjutant general, who 13 relieved from detail in that department and assigned to 11th Infantry from May 31. Major B\KER. on expiration of present leave or absence, to duty in office- of adjutant general. Department of th© Lakes, until May 5. Major '^ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, coast artll- Major ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, coast arth ■ !ery detailed in adjutant generals depart ment, to take rfTect April 13, vice Major SIDNEY S. JORDAN, adjutant general, re lieved from detail in that department from April 12. Major CAMPBELL, to San Fran cisco as assistant adjutant general. Depart ment of California, until May. thence to Honolulu as adjutant general, restrict of MaJor a \VILLIAM M. WRIGHT. Sth Infantry, detailed in adjutant general's department, to tak«. lied March 12. vice Major CHARLE3 M TRUITT. adjutant ueneral. •who Is re— lieved from detail in that department and assigned, to Sth Infantry to take effect March 12 Major WRIGHT, to San Fran cisco In time to Mil May .•> for Philippines. Captain MARION S. BATTLE, ecmM artillery, to general recruiting service. Roan-ke. rlca First' Lieutenant NATHANIEL F. ROGERS, Jr.. coast artillery, to Fort Losan.^ thence to CapSta CHARGES r 6UMMERAU* « II i \rtillery frojn Military- Acad^niv: t^ Francisco. In time to take transport calling Cp^ml^'m^SlkET. 4th Field A«ll ' 3P i', r V. to W«tt Point. April 1. -". *. NAVY. S= V l £ Ui SBiS •WSSTtt. ° !'! ' Monterey, to tr>e WltataCtOO. «». S" Or- Machinist F. R KING, detached tn* >ew it leans: to naval station. Cavlt(*. MARISB CORPS. Second Lieutenant JOHN MARSTOX. Sd, .ap pointed post quartermaster at naval «£»«. navy yard, Portsmouth.^ relieving rli« Lleu tenant Colonel E. X. ' COLE. ■ twenty-two Lieutenant Colon*! K. K. COLE. r»»mr-tm» days" leave of absence (rranted. Major C. G. LONG, to Washington, examina tion for promotion. _"_ r '~ m Following second lieutenants detached manna officers, school. Port Royal, on graduation. to stations designated: OLIVER FLOID. >. It KENNEDY. R. P. LOWELL. ■: V. PIERCE. K. K. BRUMBAUGH and_M. R. iTHACHER. to Philippine: H. M. BUTLEK and JOHN DIXON. to marln» : ...■• > km navy yard. Philadelphia: O. C. ' >K ,. A '- E ' C. C. RINER and W. B. SULLIVAN, to ma rine, barracks, navy yard. New \ork; D. M. GARDNER. Jr.. to marine barracks, naval training station. San Francisco: M. B. HUMPHRBY. to marine barracks. ... >ard. Washington: <:. A. JOHNSON, to ma rine barracks, naval station. Honolulu; E. <•. LONU. to marine barracks, navy yard. Mare [•Una 13. H. MORSE, to ('ami. Elliott, Panama: W. M. M'ILVAIN. to in... rine barracks, navy yard. Pensacola; R. S. SIMONS and A. R. SUTHERLAND, '•. ma rine barracks. Naval Academy; 11. L. SMITH to marine barrack--. navy yard, Bos ton: L. W. WILLIAMS, to mar In* barracks, navy yard. Charleston; C. I' BARRETT, to marine barracks. r.i«vy yard. Boston. First Lieutenant P. H. TORREY. nrteen days' l.ay.- of absence Rritiit. .1. Captain J. C. BUE«'KIXRII>«',E. detached Camp Elliott. Panama: to marine barracks, navy yard. Philadelphia. Captain W. W. LOW. detached i.aval station. Honolulu: to marine barracks, navy yard, Puget Sound. Captain F. F. RONARDS. detached naval sta tion. Honolulu: >.i marlno barracks, navy yard. Mare Island. First Lieutenant FREDERIC KENSEL. to Washington, examination for promotion. First Lieutenant ARTHUR sToKKS. to naval medical school hospital. Washington. Major HENRY LEONARD, return -to Ports mouth and resume duties. MOVEMENTS OP WARSHIPS.— The fol lowing movements of vessels hnve been reported to tho Navy Department; AKlt!\ BB Dec. -I— The aim, at Norfolk. Dto. 23— Tha Culsoa. at Gravetend; the I'oio- mac, m*. S*atUgr> &<» Cuba: vt» --- PortKnontb, N. H. »* SAILED , v 21— Th« .a it. from :-•«•*, ■ = Point for JferJ" Dec. 22— The Solae*, from Sao Jaaa for J»a!««' : Guantanamo for Kingston, Jaraaica^tiK* *? • Cuba; the ........ i: ,... p*«J <• na-i-y yard. ><>v York. B *°! . NAVY TAKES UP AVIATION Lieutenant Ellyson to Tak« Course Under Glenn Curtis. [From The r-!-.un»BOM«o.l Washington. Dec 22.— first step .^ the way of establishing an aeronautical' corps In the navy was taken toy Assistant- •-- Secretary "Wlnthrop to-day In «elaiii-< Lieutenant Theodore" G. FT:---.-- to take *.~~ | courso In practical flying una«r the tntor." 4 *' , ship of Glenn Curtiss, In Los Angales. 7 = , ! designation was made only after lomg de-'T"* liberation. Candidates from nearly «my '* : branch of the service mad? application fcr '•"" | the place. Indicating that th« navy wfli',^ j never lack volunteers to take up an aerial ?* career. The difficulty was to determine Ct' J which branch was the most likely to sap* j ply the officer best Qualified to ■»-oir.» an -J air pilot. ■ After goin? over the entire list. LJ«jten ant Ellyson was selected because .•, M .,'. an expert on submarines, the nearest •-'-» - to an airship, according to the department's ■■ ■ •■■-. that the navy now possesses. It _ v < held that his experience with gasolene em. glnes and the machinery of submarine* wll S give him some Insight Into the pecul!arttl*» of an aeroplane motor, and that the cod head and steady nerve necessary for navi gating a ship under water will serve htm to advantage In the navigation of a ship . above the water. It is not unlikely. there fore, that if Mr. Ellyson achieves distinct tlon as a naval officer it will be by sailing ♦, almost anywhere except on the boundlasj blue. At present he Is stationed at New rort X«?w3, and has bfea in comand of ti« ;r KN'pw3, and has been In comand of ta» •> submarine Shark. He entered the SvnM I Academy from Virginia. -' :r OFFICER MAY BE RETTHED Poor Health Likely to Prevent Captain • "Wilner Becoming Rear Admiral. [From Tba Tribune Bur«<au. I Washington, Dec. 23.— Captain Fraclc . Adams Wilner, U. I X. faces tiM pro i- .7; bility of being deprived of attaining thn J '. grade of rear admiral b»K;aii3e of an un»-..; : timely appearance before the Naval jet .- 'ins Board. Captain Wilner. who Is com-l^; ] mandant of the Portsmouth Navy Yard, appeared in Washington to-day to face th»-^ board en grounds of physical disability, h*...'., having been in poor health for some lias.. '-; ; He stands No. 5 on the list of captains, and .. ; ! would be promoted early in the- spring, it . , ; not retired. The board which will examine Captain . . Wilner is composed of Rear Admiral Gila« '3. Harber. formerly commander in chief . of the Pacific fleet, president: Rear Admiral . Kossuth Niies. Rear Admiral Southerlaad, - ; Medical Director John C. Boyd- and 31*11-.. ; cal Director Paul Fitzsims. . • -^ Captain Wilner is a native of Ohio, bat • ! was appointed to the Naval Academy free* . i New York in ISO. He -was proract&d t« •. - captain July 1. ISO 7. and was mads c«a- . ' mandant of the Portsmouth yard in Sep ■ tember, 190*. He will not reach the statu- ', tory retirement age, sixty- two years, Until iCv i 1913. THE MARIETTA AT KINGSTON. Kingston, Jamaica. Dec. 23.— The United States gunboat Marietta arrived here to day from Guantana:r.o to give its crsm- Christmas leave at this port. The visit welcomed by all, as i? will serve to en!lv«a the holiday season. MOST PHONEY FOR BUSY SOWS \ ■ '■ "i> Testator Discriminates Because He Had -:', Supported One of His Boys. He who' works shall receive — that is. b* ; .. ' shall receive more than he who docs act - v work. That probably was what Arthur C. : Tuttle, of So. 131 Lexington aver -_.* I thought when he made his wilT. Tuttti died at Orlando. Flu., on December Z. and ; j ! lii< will was filed yesterday in the 3urt» ! grate's office. The residue or his estate, ; which apparently amounts to J30.000 in per- . sonal property, is divided anionc bis three >'• sons. Alfred . Leslie Tuttle and Edward Arthur Tuttle receive nine twenty-fourth* . each and Theodore Richards Tuttle six- twenty-fourths. The testator says: . : 1 "My reason for making this dl9Crbnlß*< . ; tlon being Urn fact that my son T (MM has been supported by me for seme rear?, \. while my other two 50ns have ea— - ' tlMli . livings.'* . ;■;■■; Theodore will receive 55,C00. while his rw» -.-. brother? will receive 17.30} each. Tittle left : his T7}f© one-third of the personal ra:-, ' explaining that in his lifetime he In . ttrtm her the house No. &>! Mccon street, Brook- X lyn, which was in lieu of all dower *!ght» * and claims. SENDS BOYS TO SEE A SHOTJT 1 Brooklyn District Attorney Buys | Tickets for Kidnapped Youngsters. Acting under order 1 from District At* \i torney Clarke of Brooklyn. Detective Ccr- > i rao, head of the Italian Detective Bum I | I in that borough, yesterday afternoon took [ to the Hippodrome Joseph Longo and fcl* [ cousin, Michael Rizzc. the boys whose kid-, jj j napping has already resulted in the con- i , vlction of Marie Rappa and Sianislao Fat i tenza. Mr. Clarke purchased the ticksts. The Longo boy asked th» District At- . torney if he and "Mike" couldn't stay over '- Christmas in the Children's Society. Rather astonished. Mr. Clark* asked "JoV* V ■why he made such a request. • ! "Oh. there's soins to be something doinc , ? there on Christmas Day. and 'Mik»' and I mo should like to be In th« game.- Why. it will have our Christmas at home b*at alt } hollow."' Mr. Clarke at once made arrangement* with the head of the Children's Society lor ' tho granting of the lad's request. The Dis trict Attorney is still working on the B!a?k " Hand and kidnapping cases. 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